#BookTour: Waling in the Shadow of Footsteps by Roynell Young #Giveaway @rabtbooktours

Journey of Enlightenment

Leadership / Self development

Published Date: August 24, 2021

Publisher: Elite Online Publishing

Despite a life of challenges—from childhood illness to witnessing violence as a youth on the tough streets of uptown New Orleans, falling into the trap of drugs as a teen, and assaults on his confidence as an adult—Roynell Young is living his life’s purpose.

Walking in the Shadow of Footsteps takes readers on an emotional journey through the life of an unlikely hero who earned his way into the National Football League as a first-round draft pick, enjoyed a nine-year career as a professional athlete, then carved a pathway that led him to create an organization that today impacts thousands in the impoverished Sunnyside area of Houston. Driven by an unquenchable desire to discover his life’s purpose, Young learned that true power and freedom are the result of an unshakable commitment to live his purpose and spread the good news to the underdog. His unique story is his love letter to humanity.

#BookReview: Ariadne by @jennysaint

Synopsis: As Princesses of Crete and daughters of the fearsome King Minos, Ariadne and her sister Phaedra grow up hearing the hoofbeats and bellows of the Minotaur echo from the Labyrinth beneath the palace. The Minotaur - Minos's greatest shame and Ariadne's brother - demands blood every year.

When Theseus, Prince of Athens, arrives in Crete as a sacrifice to the beast, Ariadne falls in love with him. But helping Theseus kill the monster means betraying her family and country, and Ariadne knows only too well that in a world ruled by mercurial gods - drawing their attention can cost you everything.

In a world where women are nothing more than the pawns of powerful men, will Ariadne's decision to betray Crete for Theseus ensure her happy ending? Or will she find herself sacrificed for her lover's ambition?

Ariadne gives a voice to the forgotten women of one of the most famous Greek myths, and speaks to their strength in the face of angry, petulant Gods. Beautifully written and completely immersive, this is an exceptional debut novel.

A mesmerising retelling of the ancient Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur. Perfect for fans of CIRCE, A SONG OF ACHILLES, and THE SILENCE OF THE GIRLS.

#ReleaseBlitz for In Death I Live by Lindsay Becs @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: In Death I Live

Author: Lindsay Becs

Genre: Dark Reverse Harem Romance

Release Date: September 17, 2021

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I’ve died several deaths over the years. Each time another piece of my soul destroyed, leaving me emptier than the time before. I came to accept that fact, knowing death—true death—would descend on me sooner rather than later.

I thought I ran away from the devil—the man who’s ruled my life—for the last time, but he found me anyway. Sculpting me once more into the good girl he needs for his bidding. Forcing me to live with strangers to learn their secrets, knowing that they’re evil, like him. But I’ll go willingly to protect the one person I love.

But these men? These so-called demons? I’m not convinced they’re like him at all. If they truly are, it’s only because they were fallen angels forced to serve a devil of their own.

If I’m right, then maybe we can all crawl out of this hell of a life together and live after all.

Now, the only question that remains is: which side is the lesser of two evils?

#ReleaseBlitz for Vik by @BelleAurora1 and @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Vik

Series: Shot Callers #2

Author: Belle Aurora

Genre: Forbidden Romance

Release Date: September 17, 2021

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Nastasia Leokov has loved her brother’s best friend since the very moment she met him. Understanding that she’ll never be anything more to Viktor Nikulin than a treasure to guard, Nas sensibly hides her feelings. But when she makes a brash decision to kiss him, everything changes.

That kiss. That hot, explosive, all-consuming kiss.

It haunts Vik. And suddenly, Nastasia Leokov isn’t just a teenage mob princess.

No.

She is his. Undeniably. Indisputably.

An unbreakable connection. A hidden relationship. A lifetime of firsts.

And yet, something is missing.

Nas desperately craves the one thing Vik has never offered her.

His heart.

#ReleaseBlitz for Heartless Lover by Faith Summers @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Heartless Lover

Series: Dark Syndicate #5

Author: Faith Summers

Genre: Dark Mafia Romance

Release Date: September 16, 2021

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What doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger…

For a man like me, that thing is darkness.

The darkness from my past never ended my life.

It darkened my heart and flowed through my veins, fueling my hunger for revenge.

That's why I accepted the job to protect her.

Her: Summer Reeves.

The beautiful angel who became an asset to me when she saw something she shouldn’t have seen.

The job should have been simple.

Protecting her meant getting closer to catching the man who betrayed me.

I learned long before I joined the Bratva that you have to be heartless to be strong.

Except, she was the wild card I never saw coming.

From the moment her lips touched mine, she became the exception to my rules.

That was the moment I claimed her.

I didn’t care that she didn’t belong in my world.

Or that belonging to a man like me was her worst nightmare.

I always get what I want.

She’s mine to protect.

So when death comes to take her, I plan to fight to keep her.

‘Heartless Lover’ is the fifth book in the Dark Syndicate series. It is a standalone Dark Mafia Enemies to Lovers Romance, complete with HEA and no cliffhangers.

Please note: this book is a dark mafia romance that contains mature content, graphic violence and may contain triggers. If such materials offend you, please do not read.

#BookReview: Namesake (Fable #2) by Adrienne Young

Synopsis: Welcome to a world made dangerous by the sea and by those who wish to profit from it. Where a young girl must find her place and her family while trying to survive in a world built for men.

With the Marigold ship free of her father, Fable and the rest of the crew were set to start over. That freedom is short-lived when Fable becomes a pawn in a notorious thug’s scheme. In order to get to her intended destination, she must help him to secure a partnership with Holland, a powerful gem trader who is more than she seems.

As Fable descends deeper into a world of betrayal and deception, she learns that the secrets her mother took to her grave are now putting the people Fable cares about in danger. If Fable is going to save them, then she must risk everything—including the boy she loves and the home she has finally found.

#BookBlitz: Primeval Waters by William Burke #Giveaway @RABTBookTours

 

Horror

Date Published: 08-04-2021

Publisher: Severed Press

Planetary geologist Dr. Micah Clarke, his nine-year-old daughter Faye and his assistant Catalina Abril are abducted at gunpoint; forced to join a megalomaniac’s paramilitary expedition down an Amazon tributary ruled by murderous pirates and cannibal tribes. The goal—recover a meteorite capable of providing clean energy for the world. But prehistoric terrors lurk around every bend in the river. Swarms of six-inch titan ants and a seventy-foot Titanoboa tear a bloody swath through the flotilla. Micah is convinced that some unknown intelligence is manifesting these primeval horrors to protect the meteorite’s secrets. To defend his daughter, Micah must battle monsters, pirates and cannibals, all leading to his ultimate confrontation with an ancient force possessing the power of creation, or total destruction… and the doomsday clock is chiming midnight.

#BookReview: The Orphan Witch by Paige Crutcher

Synopsis: A deeper magic. A stronger curse. A family lost...and found. 

Persephone May has been alone her entire life. Abandoned as an infant and dragged through the foster care system, she wants nothing more than to belong somewhere. To someone. However, Persephone is as strange as she is lonely. Unexplainable things happen when she’s around—changes in weather, inanimate objects taking flight—and those who seek to bring her into their family quickly cast her out. To cope, she never gets attached, never makes friends. And she certainly never dates. Working odd jobs and always keeping her suitcases half-packed, Persephone is used to moving around, leaving one town for another when curiosity over her eccentric behavior inevitably draws unwanted attention.

After an accidental and very public display of power, Persephone knows it’s time to move on once again. It’s lucky, then, when she receives an email from the one friend she’s managed to keep, inviting her to the elusive Wile Isle. The timing couldn’t be more perfect. However, upon arrival, Persephone quickly discovers that Wile is no ordinary island. In fact, it just might hold the very things she’s been searching for her entire life.

Answers. Family. Home.

And some things she did not want. Like 100-year-old curses and an even older family feud. With the clock running out, love might be the magic that saves them all.

This title will be released on September 28, 2021.

#CoverRereveal for Falling All In by Gia Kim @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Falling All In

Author: Gia Kim

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Cover Design: Sarah Kil Creative Studio

Photo: Wander Aguiar

Model: Kyle Kriesel

Release Date: April 8, 2021

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With her history of bad relationships, Mindy believes the closest she will ever get to martial bliss is standing up at her best friend’s wedding.

Then, she meets Austin.

The wedding photographer is sexy, charming, and completely unattainable. Still, Mindy is irresistibly drawn to him. Even though she's convinced she's setting her self up for another heartache, seeing everyone else around her find love prompts her to take the risk... one last time.

After a painful breakup in college, Austin made his career his sole focus. Photographing weddings seemed a far safer option than vowing himself to a lifelong commitment. While he couldn't deny his attraction to Mindy, he pushed her away out of fear of getting hurt.

He thought concentrating on work would chase all thoughts of the enticing beauty from his mind. But something seems to be missing from his life, there’s a hole in his heart no distraction can fill. Only when he sees Mindy in passing does he realize letting her walk out of his life was the biggest mistake he ever made. Can Austin convince her to give him a second chance? Or was their shot at happiness over before it even began?

#CoverReveal for Damaged Soul by @authoremmacreed and @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Damaged Soul

Series: Dirty Souls MC #4

Author: Emma Creed
Genre: MC Romance

Cover Design: Rebel Ink

Release Date: October 1, 2021

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‘Bound not by blood but loyalty.

We live, we ride, and we die

by our own laws’

Becoming a Soul saved me from myself.

My compulsions are an asset to them, and a curse to me.

Doing my duty for the club provides me with the release I need,

But beneath the surface my demons still lurk.

Rogue’s fierce, strong and unpredictable,

and when she reaches out to the club

I’m the only one who can help her.

She can sense the monster inside me,

She also has the ability to summon it.

And now I’ll have to control them both in order to protect her.

#BookReview: Not the Witch You Wed by @NovelsByApril

Synopsis: A fake relationship between a magic-less witch and a wolf shifter turns to more in the start of a bewitching new paranormal rom-com series.

Magic-less witch Violet Maxwell wants nothing to do with alpha wolf shifter Lincoln Thorne—the man who broke her fragile, teenage heart. But when the two of them are forced by arcane Supernatural Laws to find mates, Violet and Lincoln agree to fake-date their way to a fake-mating in order to conjure themselves some time.

The joke’s on them. When old feelings make a reappearance—along with Violet’s magic—they both realize there’s nothing fake about their feelings. But there are old secrets and looming threats that could snatch away their happily ever after, again. One thing’s for sure: magic doesn’t make dating and love any easier. 

In Not the Witch You Wed, April Asher brings all the hilarity and sweet, sexy moments you love in a romantic-comedy—plus a fun dose of magic—to this spell-binding new series about being sexy, single, and supernatural in New York City.

This title will be released on February 8, 2022.

#CoverReveal: The Unbroken by @That_1_author @XpressoTours

The Unbroken
Destiny Hawkins
(The Descendants, #3)
Publication date: April 2022
Genres: Adult, Dark Fantasy, Dystopian, Science Fiction

Best-selling author Destiny Hawkins brings you the third installment of a gripping dark fantasy where a powerless girl must survive in a society that doesn’t accept the weak…or the defective.

#BookBlitz: The Chair Man by @AlexBPearl @RABTBookTours @BookBuzznet

 

Thriller

THIS BESTSELLING KINDLE IS NOW FREE ON ALL E-PLATFORMS INCLUDING AMAZON

Michael Hollinghurst is a successful corporate lawyer living in London. But on 7 July 2005, his life is transformed when he steps on a London underground train targeted by Islamist suicide bombers. Michael survives the explosion but is confined to a wheelchair as a result. Coming to terms with his predicament and controlling his own feelings of guilt as a survivor conspire to push him in a direction that is out of character and a tad reckless. In a quest to seek retribution, he resorts to embracing the internet and posing as a radical Islamist in order to snare potential perpetrators. Much to his surprise, his shambolic scheme yields results and is brought to the attention of both GCHQ and a terrorist cell. But before long, dark forces begin to gather and close in on him. There is seemingly no way out for Michael Hollinghurst. He has become, quite literally, a sitting target.

#BookBlitz: Hard Drive by @shaeconnor @XpressoTours

Hard Drive
Shae Connor
(University of Atlanta, #2)
Published by: Entangled Embrace
Publication date: October 18th 2021
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, LGBTQ+, Romance

Description TBA

#BookBlitz: Much Ado About Dukes by @evadevonauthor @XpressoTours

Much Ado About Dukes
Eva Devon
(Never a Wallflower, #2)
Published by: Entangled: Amara
Publication date: January 25th 2022
Genres: Historical Romance, Romance

The matchmakers’ playbook goes out the window in this bold Regency romance that’s Emma meets 10 Things I Hate About You from USA Today bestselling author Eva Devon.

Each book in the Never a Wallflower series is STANDALONE:
* The Spinster and the Rake
* Much Ado About Dukes

#ReleaseBoost for Untethered Love by Susan Ring @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Untethered Love

Series: Beach Books Cafe #1

Author: Susan Ring

Genre: New Adult Romance

Release Date: September 2, 2021

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Would you reveal a deep dark truth that might tear your very soul apart? Or would you stuff it down inside and continue destroying every possible relationship you might have?

Claire is a twenty-two-year-old part time waitress and aspiring artist. She can’t seem to finish a painting agonizing over the truth in the darkness behind the beautiful watercolor strokes of her paintbrush.

She doesn’t trust love or herself.

Justin, is a sports agent living on top of the hill in beautiful Laguna Beach, California. He boldly walks into Claire’s life with past romance baggage threatening to scar him for a lifetime.

Is it life, or karma when they keep bumping into each other? Claire’s past painful memories start to become palpable and she can no longer push them down. Her haunted past follows her and danger is present for everyone involved.

Tethered secrets might keep them apart. What could possibly go wrong?

How about everything. Darkness comes before the light.

Will their love be ruined, or will the truth and power of intimacy set them free to love each other?

Untethered Love, like life, is full of roller coaster ups and downs of love, always emotional, twisted in with romantic suspense. It’s new adult steamy romance laced with the reality of contemporary romance.

Buy today and get ready to experience all the ‘firsts’ with this hot new first love all over again.

#CoverReveal: Midnight Renegade by @AnyaBSummers @XpressoTours

Midnight Renegade
Anya Summers
(Dungeon Singles Night, #4)
Publication date: September 24th 2021
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance

They were enemies…with benefits.

Sworn adversaries with no love lost between them. And yet, the night Brody throws down the gauntlet, challenges Reegan to surrender to his touch, she recklessly accepts.

An erotic pact forged in flames. But there are rules. He will give no quarter. No emotional ties. No commitment. And absolutely, no falling in love.

She agrees to his terms. She makes a deal with the devil. She’s playing with fire.

And they are both about to be burned…

#CoverReveal: Golden Crown by Kathleen Mare'e @XpressoTours

Golden Crown
Kathleen Mare’e
(Arthur Academy, #2)
Publication date: November 25th 2021
Genres: New Adult, Romance

“If the world is full of monsters, how do we know who wears the crown…”

Hendrix:
In the dark of the night he bared his soul, delivering a shocking event that should’ve changed everything.

So why in the light of day, does everything appear the same…?

The further I’m immersed in this world he calls the ‘elite’, the more I don’t understand. And it’s not only his world I’m afraid I’m falling for, but the Golden Crown himself as well.

But Pax still has secrets.

And I want him to trust me, like a flame wanting fire.

Because despite his world being nothing as it seems, I’m not sure I could walk away even if I wanted to.

Because the truth be told, I don’t want to.

I want him.
Paxton:
In the dark of the night I revealed a truth, delivering the brutal reality of what the elite really means.

So why in the light of day, does everything appear the same…?

It’s the same cat and mouse games, and the same political, power tricks where the Golden Crown is all they see. It’s all they want to see.

Except for her.

But there are things I can’t tell her. Things I don’t think she’ll understand yet.

And I need her to trust me, like a fire needing flame.

Because despite me knowing what this world does to those who fall victim to it, I’m not sure I could walk away from Hendrix, even if I wanted to.

Because the truth be told, I don’t want to.

I want her.

#ReleaseBlitz for Coerce by @Candice47749980 and @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Coerce

Author: Candice Wright

Genre: Dark Stalker Romance

Release Date: September 9, 2021

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Ivy

I know what love is. After witnessing its devastation, I’ve shied away from it,

Until Atlas.

I never thought I’d ignore the red flags and wave a white one.

Surrendering to Atlas in the most delectable way,

I didn’t realize he’d been playing me all along

Until I found myself at his mercy.

They say love can heal all wounds,

But what about the scars left behind?

Atlas

I don’t know what love is. I’ve never been touched by its light or fallen into its depths,

Until Ivy.

When I see something I want, I take it.

And right now, all I want is her.

Each move I make is calculated and methodical,

Until I have her exactly where I want her.

By the time she realizes it’s a trap, it will be too late.

She’ll never forgive me, and I’ll never set her free.

But I feel no guilt, nor remorse.

Not when I’ll own every inch of her; body, heart, and soul.

And not even Ivy herself will stop me.

Author note: If you’re looking for a White Knight, you might want to look elsewhere. Atlas is an Antihero in every sense of the word.

This book plays with the darker side of love such as obsession, infatuation, and the power plays made to obtain it.

*Coerce is a complete standalone novel*

Triggers: It goes without saying that this book contains dark elements that some readers may find uncomfortable including offensive language, graphic violence, and sexual situations. All readers should be over 18 so I don’t have to answer any awkward emails from your parents or dodge pitchforks when I’m doing my weekly shopping.

#ReleaseBlitz for SOUL SISTERS: Scarlett by @Nicole_James1 and @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: SOUL SISTERS: Scarlett

Series: Soul Sisters #2

Author: Nicole James

Genre: Romantic Suspense

Release Date: September 9, 2021

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What happens when twin sisters switch places? Scarlett and Charlotte have been estranged for years, and the secret that tore them apart pushed them into two very different life paths. One became a rock star and the other a biker chick. Can walking in each other's shoes mend their relationship and heal old wounds?

The exciting conclusion to the Soul Sisters Duet.

When Rocker Charlotte Justice proposed exchanging places with Scarlett, the owner of Badlands, a biker bar outside Vegas, Scarlett thought she'd get a chance at the limelight she felt was stolen from her, and perhaps escape the devastating grief she's been living with ever since she lost the love of her life.

So on a whim, they decide to switch places like they did when they were kids.

What harm could it do?

Scarlett has no idea that taking Charlotte's place will lead her to answers she's sought all her life, not to mention meeting the one man who might be able to heal her broken heart. Will the billionaire that's fallen for her stick around when she reveals she's not the rock star she's pretending to be?

Flying blind in her new role, Scarlett will have to navigate the cut-throat, and sometimes backstabbing world of concert promotion, recording labels and unscrupulous managers. It's not all signing autographs, choosing pretty costumes and playing with the band.

Scarlett will learn more about her rock star sister than she ever imagined.

Will it be enough to bring them back together, this time closer than ever?

And this time will love conquer all?